Cracks in the Sky Vocals: Katakiri Rekka Lyrics: Kamijo Takafumi Composition: MANYO Arrangement: MANYO I simply walked while being blown by the wind I simply stood still Wordlessly I felt the invisible power that surrounded me before I knew it Alone, I quietly gazed at the single stream of the distant...

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Written by: Zyl at Sea Slugs! Anime Blog Living the dream Summary:Really, it’s not like I’m happy or anything Akari returns as the super popular main character with whom everyone else is madly in love with. Sadly for her, it’s just a dream en route to a hot springs inn. At their holiday...

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You’d think there’d be more licking. Impressions: Odd. Apparently they decided to add some new red headed character and then begin with her having delusions of all the rest of the lesbians fighting over her. Uh, okay? Unfortunately, as is usual for the show, that joke did go on a bit...

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Written by: Zyl at Sea Slugs! Anime Blog Our Tooru fandom is going strong. For our next post, we shall analyze yuri harems in relation to the theories of Baudrillard(This is the inevitable fate of all editorial blogs) Summary: Kitou Kimiko-sensei hurts a finger during another one of her bursts of over-enthusiasm...

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by dm00Those butterflies are there for a reason The end. I’ve been reading the last several volumes of xxxHoLic, impatient for the series to end. Now, when it arrives, they include a pair of stories (the one about the Hei-gushi, and the one about the serpent’s-eye talisman) that I could...

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by dm00Those butterflies are there for a reason The end. I’ve been reading the last several volumes of xxxHoLic, impatient for the series to end. Now, when it arrives, they include a pair of stories (the one about the Hei-gushi, and the one about the serpent’s-eye talisman) that I could...

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Yuuki Aoi has won the top lead female seiyuu award for 2011. The results have just been announced on radio in Japan.In 2011, Ao-chan went from strength to strength, with numerous big roles starting with Madoka in Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika, Iris in Pokemon BW, and Victorique in Gosick, and going through...

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FanimeCon is one Northern California convention I try to hit every year, even though it’s lost some of its luster for me recently. Thankfully there were a number of fan & guest panels that kept me interested enough in 2011′s edition of the event. FAN PANELS History of Memes had an 16+...

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Apparently a fan of the yuri themed school comedy “Yuri Yuri”, of which a sequel anime season was announced late December, artist Tatsuya Yuki (Pixiv) of circle Studio S.D.T. released a doujin centered around this hilarious show. Published at C81, the book titled “Trashbox 23” not only includes...

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Apparently a fan of the yuri themed school comedy “Yuri Yuri”, of which a sequel anime season was announced late December, artist Tatsuya Yuki (Pixiv) of circle Studio S.D.T. released a doujin centered around this hilarious show. Published at C81, the book titled “Trashbox 23” not only includes...

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In Himawari-san, Volume 1, Matsuri discovers that a nearby bookstore is run by a quiet, pleasant woman. Matsuri falls for the woman, and starts hanging around the book store. Matsuri begins to help out around the store, even though she doesn't really seem to enjoy reading, at all.Himawari-san, Volume...

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Christmas Eve brings Rihoko’s For You song. I actually had to rewatch her arc because I was unsure if there was a secondary meaning behind “love” and “charm” which I had forgotten. Turns out it had to do with the made up story the older tea club members told Rihoko concerning...

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As last week’s episode of Mawaru PenguinDrum dealt with Tabuki’s backstory, the plot of Mawaru PenguinDrum moves forward a bit with Nastume meeting Kanba’s little sister. Despite Natsume meeting Himawari in this episode, I was intruiged what Utena-Man was doing in this episode, as I personly...

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Three young people - a sickly sister, Himawari, and her two older bothers, Kanba and Shouma, who love and adore her, find themselves cast into a spiral of ever-weirdening events when Himawari dies in the hospital.A bizarre hat confers life and power to Himawari, elaborately transforming her intowell,...

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One of the great joys for me as curator here at Okazu, is when our readers escalate into advocates and reviewers in their own right. It's been my pleasure on multiple occasions to present to you reviews by readers who have decided to commit themselves to a higher level of engagement.&nbsp;Today's...